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This is frustrating. And of course I didn't find the issue until I bought the lifetime license.

Anyway, here's the deal. I'd like to trade on the chart while I'm learning, and I'd like every new trade to have a stop/loss and a trailing stop automagically added. I can make this work, if I choose to do something like "trigger the trailing stop at 10 ticks, and have the stop/loss trail by 10 ticks."

Works great, works as part of an integrated master strategy, and it works as expected -- if I set levels ~= to the average true range, then I get stopped out on big moves.

Loosen the stop over time. Ideally I'll be able to tell MC to trigger at 20 ticks (say), and move the stop so that it captures 50% of a move. The longer the move, the more breathing room for retracements.

If you set floor amount to $400
and the percent to 30 %
then once it reaches $400 , it can retreat up to 30% ($120) and keep moving.
If it reaches $800, then the 30% pullback would be $240.
At $1200, the trail would be $360 .

You can add multiples of these signals if you wanted to tighten the stop percentage as you go.
e.g. you could add a signal with $800 floor amount with a 10 % trail.

with these signals, you would have a 30% trail from $400 to $800. At $800 dollars and up, the second signal would fire on a 10 % pullback . So at $800 , if it pulled back $80 , the trail would close the position at $720.

Do you see how you can use the percent trailing signal to achieve your goals ?